Master Swordsman’s Stream - Chapter 291

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Chapter 291

“What exactly is he doing?”
Seo Jun had suddenly started wandering through the city, and Sara had to provide commentary on Caster’s question.
“Exploring the city, maybe?”
“Why would he explore the city?”
“Understanding the environment where a fight might break out in detail is always gain, never loss.”
“It’s wasting time, isn’t it?”
“He’s in first place anyway.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. Perhaps he judged that a fight could break out on the train?”
“Exactly! Top-tier players always prepare for what comes next!”

-I see!
-I wondered why he kept changing direction, but he was covering the whole map
-This Korean is unexpectedly thorough?
-Is this part of the secret to his skill? I’ll show respect
-But what good does that do? He’ll get attacked anyway

“Besides, he said he’ll get attacked and it’ll end today. We don’t know what will happen. Since Kael is moving so aimlessly right now, he might actually not get attacked.”
Sara chuckled at Caster’s words.
“I don’t think so.”
“Why?”
“Looking at the Black Shadow’s appearance yesterday when he was a guard, there wasn’t even a hint of inconsistency.”
“Is that so?”
“Yes. He might still be watching right now. Who knows?”
“Haha.”
The Day Six camera was capturing Kael doing absolutely nothing—more precisely, doing a very dull city exploration.
If nothing happened elsewhere, the camera would stay fixed on Kael.
Because they didn’t know when he’d be attacked.
Sara began to applaud.
“Kael is diligently exploring the city. He should just enter the Otherworld instead.”
“The Otherworld?”
“Yes. There, at least the odds of being attacked by NPCs would be lower, wouldn’t they?”
“True enough.”
“Sigh. So peaceful despite being in danger of attack.”

-Haha, true
-But I like seeing Kael this serene
-Why?
-He’s not doing anything weird
-But he’s still the richest hahaha

“Seriously. He must be upset spending all those Achievement Points and then dying?”
Sara gave her commentary with cool indifference, watching the screen.
Since the other champions were still in the early stages, nothing would likely happen, and it looked like they’d be stuck watching Kael for at least another five minutes.
And then, that moment.
“Huh? What’s he doing? Hahaha!”
Caster and Sara laughed.
“Putting on a mask all of a sudden! What’s he up to now!”
The moment an innocent NPC appeared on screen, rolling his eyes innocently in Seo Jun’s view—

-What!!!!!!
-Was I the only one who got chills?
-This is fear… this is fear…
-What were those two doing?
-He wasn’t walking the map?
-An incredible game of reading each other’s intentions?
-Hahaha! Even Sara didn’t know! Hahaha!

A dull situation changed in an instant.

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The fact that their eyes met didn’t necessarily mean the man wasn’t an attacker.
It could have been Seo Jun’s paranoia.
Seo Jun knew this too.
Still.
He had a Crime Permit.
Attack and either finish it or let them live—that was all.
Seo Jun met the confused NPC’s eyes and smiled wickedly.
Why confused? Why stopping?
‘That just makes me suspect you’re really an attacker.’
What? Backing away too?
Then there’s nothing for it but to test it out.
Seo Jun attacked the white line drawn on the other’s body.
And as his blade moved from its starting point, drawing across the body, a striking change occurred in the opponent’s flesh.
The body began to crumble.
The skin shriveled instantly, burning away.
The surface decayed as if rotting.
And a green light began to emerge from within.
‘So it was real.’
Seo Jun’s conviction about his instinct became even more solid.
This wasn’t a baseless feeling.
Since he’d never been wrong, there was nothing for it but to verify each time.
“You’re an attacker?”
Seo Jun’s blade then struck the next Vital Point. A spot.
Only then did the opponent regain his senses and raise his weapon.
Seo Jun focused on the form of that weapon.
His left hand held an Explorer’s Hook with Rope, and his right hand held a small Short Blade.
Since the hooded disguise was his default, it would be hard to see his face.
“Yes.”
A counterattack came flying.
Whoosh!
The hook in the opponent’s hand was fired.
Just like a Chain bursting from Eric’s Magic Circle.
While other aspects differed, the form of the shot itself was the same.
“You dodging that?”
There was a tell.
The hook slightly separated from the opponent’s hand in an instant, and aimed in the direction of Seo Jun’s head.
“So you’re not dodging?”
Sigh.
With a resigned exhale, Seo Jun simply approached and struck the third Vital Point.
“Tch.”
The Short Blade was attacking Seo Jun’s shoulder, targeting a Vital Point, but without using a Skill, Seo Jun simply leaned his shoulder back and twisted his body to evade, and his blade continued as if drawing a circle from above, striking the next Vital Point.
In a flash, after four attacks were allowed through, the opponent’s eyes showed genuine confusion.
At times like this, the main thing you could do was break the rhythm.
Whoosh!
He pulled the rope back to his hand and retreated backward.
It was exactly as Seo Jun predicted, and he didn’t interfere with the retreat.
As the hook was pulled, it passed dangerously close to Seo Jun’s body.
Only passing.
“Does it take a lot of health if it hits? Or is there a Crowd Control Skill involved?”
“You think I’d tell you information, Korean?”
“Then I won’t back off? You know everything about me anyway.”
“I still won’t fall for it.”
“The fact that you appeared in front of me at all means you were trying to hunt me, doesn’t it?”
Seo Jun approached again.
They exchanged a few more blows.
The attacker retreated backward again.
The attacker had broken out of the Alley.
It didn’t look like he was about to flee.
“You have a lot of health?”
Seo Jun chuckled as he spoke.
While only the opponent had been attacked one-sidedly, their current health pools were similar.
“You could’ve had even more in a few days.”
“Did you come looking for me? Or, you didn’t come looking for me but I found you instead?”
Seo Jun continued to allow the opponent to break the rhythm largely to gather information.
“I came looking for you!”
This time, the attacker’s body was launched forward.
The Battlefield shifted back into the Alley.
Seo Jun flicked the hook coming straight at him to the side, burying it in the wall, and brought his blade down from above.
The opponent, knowing the downward strike wouldn’t sever a Vital Point, didn’t block and simply attacked Seo Jun instead.
‘Is this a Skill? Doesn’t feel like it.’
Seo Jun’s instinct told him the opponent’s attack felt like an attempt to drain Seo Jun’s Skill.
But.
Seo Jun used the Skill as desired.

No.
“Block this!”
How should he avoid the damage?
Seo Jun was troubled.
The opponent’s hook showed signs of being fired.
But this time, the green aura was bundled much more densely.
‘Is it stacked?’
Bang!
Multiple hooks were fired.
One made of green light and the main body hook.
They spread around Seo Jun like a casting net, and right then the opponent pulled his left arm, and Seo Jun was dragged helplessly as the hook lodged in his back.
It was a Crowd Control Skill.
‘It’s basically confirmed, so the Cooldown must be long.’
“Hahaha!”
Following the Skill’s Damage came attacks with the Dagger, dealing considerable Damage.
His health dropped by a third.
Once the CC was released, the opponent continued attacking and activated his Ultimate skill.
Green light swelled around his body before suddenly exploding and spreading outward in all directions.
Naturally, Seo Jun saw it for the first time and couldn’t dodge it, though no Damage was dealt and no status condition was applied.
But from the ground beside Seo Jun, one of the Otherworld’s Monsters began crawling up.
“That’s your Ultimate skill, right?”
“Yeah, that’s right. And it has the exact characteristic you know about. But you have to deal with me too.”
It wouldn’t be the same.
“Mm.”
“Now it’s hitting you that you’re going to die.”
“Ugh…”
“You’re so flustered you can’t even speak. Just take off the mask if that’s how it is.”
“Uhhh…”
With the Monster charging and the presumed Black Shadow pouring attacks, Seo Jun fell into thought.
Very serious thought.
This was an important matter.
And the content of that thought troubling Seo Jun was as follows.
‘Should I kill him now?’
He seemed to have gathered almost all the information he needed.
Yeah, let’s kill him.
“Won’t you explain your Skills?”
“I’ll just tell you—your Skill has 20 seconds of Cooldown left. You’ll die if you get hit one more time when it’s ready.”
“So you won’t tell me. Then die.”
Seo Jun’s eyes changed.
He’d gathered enough information now.
From that point on, Seo Jun drove the opponent forward without using the Blessing of Radiance even once.
First the Monster.
Dodging the incoming hook, kicking away the opponent coming with the Dagger, disposing of the Monster was simple.
Its health wasn’t higher than the Otherworld Monster’s.
“The Cooldown’s up! One more hit and you’re done!”
“You still believe that?”
It was clear the opponent was trying to exhaust Seo Jun’s Invulnerability Skill by any means necessary.
But.
“Just one more time…! Just once!”
Seo Jun began to toy with him.
The opponent didn’t even realize he was being easily overwhelmed, focused only on trying to drain Seo Jun’s Skill.
All of this.
‘Mm.’
Was possible because the opponent’s openings were so glaringly apparent.
Compared to the fundamentals visible at a glance, there were openings so obvious it was almost strange.
Seo Jun had already figured out that it was because the opponent was unfamiliar with the weapon.
‘If it were a normal blade, he would’ve fought much better. Other people probably wouldn’t even notice these openings.’
But he could see them.
Because he’d reached the highest, supreme realm.
In his past life.
Seo Jun changed his tone.
Time to set the atmosphere.
“Unfortunate. Minion of the Black Shadow.”
“Just one more…! What?”
“Farewell. You know the Judgment Sword’s execution health threshold, don’t you?”
“Huh? What? When did—that aside, minion? What do you mean?”
“Denying your true nature now of all times. How pitiful. Tsk.”
“Wait!”
The attacker began to convulse desperately as his health approached the execution threshold.
His lower jaw clenched beneath the hood.
His reaction differed markedly from the other heretics he’d previously dealt with.
Was he so obsessed with the Historical Records?
It was somewhat awkward, but what could be done?
“Stop! I said stop!”
The attacker was wholly focused on evading and running away.
But Seo Jun easily kept pace and dealt additional Damage.
‘His death throes are awfully severe.’
“Go well.”
Seo Jun planted his blade with both hands into the gap in the stone-paved street before the attacker.
“No! No! No! No!”

[Judgment Sword]

A fissure opened in the sky above the city.

“Thus one minion of evil is removed.”
“I’m not a minion!”
Boom!
“…?”
The attacker dies.
Rags burning away, green light exploding.
The city destroyed once more.
It’s fine.
The permit will cover it.
Seo Jun walked toward the rubble.
Was it not over yet?
Or was this a chance to speak with the final Boss?
Or something else?
The enemy’s corpse resembled a ghost.
The face remained intact, and Seo Jun asked him a question.
Whether conversation was possible.
“So how many more people like you are there?”
He’d grasped the pattern well enough that he could probably sweep through about ten more right now, couldn’t he?
As Seo Jun entertained such thoughts, an answer came.
“None. You madman.”
“What?”
“I’m the Black Shadow.”
“Ah. So that’s how it is. Then Phase 2?”
“No. I’m dead. Dead! It’s over, Kael!”
The opponent was putting on airs of calm, but the turbulence in his eyes revealed he was gravely troubled about how to handle the aftermath.
“Hm?”
Through the opponent’s reaction, Seo Jun could infer the truth.
So that meant.
“You’re the final Black Shadow?”
“Yes.”
“Stop posturing now that you’ve lost.”
“…”
“So that’s it? The end?”
“Probably. Haha.”
Seo Jun spoke thus and gazed down at the corpse, its face dissolving into a green fog before the connection severed.
Turbulence spread to Seo Jun’s eyes as well.
‘I’m screwed. What now?’
He’d naturally assumed that was just a minion.

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